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Describe the following sleep phenomena: nightmares, night terrors, sleepwalking, and sleeptalking.

Nightmares are terrifying dreams that occur during REM sleep, or rapid eye movement sleep. These dreams include exceptionally disturbing emotions, such as anger, guilt, sadness or depression, but the most common feelings are fear and anxiety. The most common nightmare is being chased. Adults are commonly chased by an unknown male figure while children are chased by an animal or some fantasy figure. Nightmares are less common in adults than in children. Nightmares are upsetting enough to us that they wake us up during our dreams. Just about everyone has a nightmare one time or another. Everyone can vividly remember their nightmares, but people don't get nightmares very often. We think that we have them more often than we do, because we don't remember a majority of our dreams. Some nightmares can be caused by certain drugs of medications, or by rapid withdrawal from them. Many people......

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